Biographical Data
Address: Center for the Study of Language and Information
Ventura Hall, Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305-4115
Date of Birth: March 17, 1922
Degrees, Fellowships and Awards
B.S., University of Chicago, 1943.
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1950.
Wendell T. Bush Fellow, Columbia University, 1949-50.
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1955-56.
Postdoctoral Fellow, National Science Foundation, 1956-57.
Social Science Research Council Research Award, 1959.
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1962.
Fellow, American Psychological Association, 1964.
Nicholas Murray Butler Medal in Silver, Columbia University, 1965.
Member, National Academy of Education, 1965.
Palmer O. Johnson Memorial Award, American Educational Research Association,
1967.
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1968.
John Smyth Memorial Lecturer, Victorian Institute of Educational Research, Melbourne,
Australia, 1968.
Membre associé étranger, Société Française
de Psychologie, 1968.
American Educational Research Association, Phi Delta Kappa Meritorious Researcher
Award, 1971.
Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1971-72.
Member, International Institute of Philosophy, 1971.
Member, Society of Experimental Psychologists, 1972.
President, Pacific Division, American Philosophical Association, 1972-73.
Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, American Psychological Association,
1972.
President, American Educational Research Association, 1973-74.
President, National Academy of Education, 1973-77.
Membre titulaire, Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences,
1973.
Foreign Member, Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 1974.
Hägerstrm Lecturer, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, 1974.
President, Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, International
Union of History and Philosophy of Science, 1975-79.
President, International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, 1976, 1978.
Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1978.
Columbia University Teachers College Medal for Distinguished Service, 1978 .
Howison Lecturer in Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1979.
Honorary Doctor's Degree in the Social Sciences, University of Nijmegen, The
Netherlands, 1979.
E. L. Thorndike Award for Distinguished Psychological Contribution to Education,
American Psychological Association, 1979.
The S. Richard Silverman Lectureship in Hearing and Deafness, Central Institute
for the Deaf, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 1979.
Visiting Professor, Collège de France, Paris, November 1979.
Messenger Lecturer, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, September 1981.
Docteur Honoris Causa, Académie de Paris, Université René
Descartes, 1982.
Visiting Professor, Collège de France, Paris, April 1988.
Lectures "Determinism and Prediction", "Determinism, Chaos and Randomness",
"Free Will" and "Determinism and
Free Will", Collège de France, Paris, 1988.
Ernest Nagel Memorial Lecture, "Determinism, Computation and Free Will", Columbia
University, 1988.
William James Fellow, American Psychological Society, 1989.
Evert Willem Beth Lecture, "Physical Determinism and Biological Computation",
Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 1989.
Corresponding Member, Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts, 1990.
National Medal of Science, 1990.
Foreign Member, Russian Academy of Education, 1990.
Member, American Philosophical Society, 1991.
The Thirteenth Hausser Lecture in the Humanities, "Determinism, Biological Computation,
and Free Will", Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, 1991.
Foreign Member, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, 1992.
Member, European Academy of Sciences and Arts, 1993.
Honorary Member, Chilean Academy of Sciences, 1993.
1993 Louis Robinson Award, Educom, Washington, DC, 1993.
Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery, 1994.
First Annual Karl Popper Visiting Lecture, "The Nature of Freedom", London School
of Economics and Political Science, University of London, 1995.
Reichenbach Lecture, "Freedom, Determinism and Biological Computation", University
of California, Los Angeles, 1997.
Ernest Nagel Memorial Lectures in Philosophy and Science, "Freedom and Uncertainty",
"Brain-wave Recognition of Words" and "Nemeses of Freedom: Determinism and Computation",
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1997.
William Lowe Bryan Memorial Lecture, "Brain-wave Recognition of Words and Sentences",
Indiana University, 1998.
Eleventh Annual Alfred Tarski Lectures, "Invariance and Meaning" and "A Physical
Model of the BrainŐs Computation of Truth", University of California, Berkeley,
1999.
Doctor philosophiae honoris causa, Universität Regensburg, 1999
Dottore (ad honorem) in Filosofia, University of Bologna, Italy, 1999
Academic Appointments
1948-50 Lecturer (part-time), Columbia University
1950-59 Assistant and Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Stanford
University
1959-92 Professor, Department of Philosophy, Stanford University
1959-92 Director, Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences,
Stanford University
1960-92 Professor by courtesy, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
1963-69 Chairman, Department of Philosophy, Stanford University
1967-92 Professor by courtesy, School of Education, Stanford University
1973-92 Professor by courtesy, Department of Psychology, Stanford University
1975-92 Lucie Stern Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University
1992- Lucie Stern Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Stanford University
1992- Director and Faculty Advisor, Education Program for Gifted Youth, Stanford
University
Membership in Professional Societies
American Educational Research Association
American Mathematical Society
American Philosophical Association
American Psychological Association
American Psychological Society
Association for Computing Machinery
Association for Symbolic Logic
British Society for the Philosophy of Science
Econometric Society
Institute for Mathematical Statistics
Mathematical Association of America
Philosophy of Science Association
Psychonomic Society
Society of Experimental Psychologists
Society for Mathematical Psychology